Trial electronic resources

The Library has arranged trial access to the following online resources. These services can be accessed by University of Sheffield staff and students for a limited time only:

The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2011

 

The Economist was established in 1843 to campaign for free trade and freedom of the individual. The complete archive (1843-2011) is available, with editorial, advertising and tabular matter all fully searchable.

Trial access is available from this web page (see Quick links on the right hand side of the page). The trial ends on 31 December 2015.

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010

 

The complete searchable facsimile run of the daily business newspaper, from 1888 to 2010.

Trial access is available from this web page (see Quick links on the right hand side of the page). The trial ends on 31 December 2015.

The Japan Times Digital Archive, 1897-2014

Japan Times Digital Archive includes digital and searchable scans of all pages published in The Japan Times between 1897 and 2014. The Japan Times is the English language daily newspaper published in Japan.

Trial access is available from this web page (see Quick links on the right hand side of the page). The trial ends on 22 December 2015.

 

Feedback

We welcome your comments on these trial resources: online feedback form

You can also request a trial by using this online request form

For a full list of trial electronic resources, please see this web page

Spare Rib Magazine

Spare Rib was a landmark national feminist magazine. It was first published in July 1972 and continued until January 1993. All 239 editions of the magazine are now available online for the first time, providing a valuable insight into women’s lives and this period of feminist activity. 

Access

Access is available from this webpage. Alternatively, search for “Spare Rib” using the University Collections search box on the StarPlus Library catalogue. 

Additionally, the British Library’s Spare Rib website features selected pages from the magazine, alongside articles written by academics, activists and former contributors.

Cambridge Histories Online: now available

We have recently purchased an exciting new resource, Cambridge Histories Online, and this is now available via MUSE.

Cambridge Histories Online provides access to over 300 books published since the 1960s in a variety of subject areas including British History, Economic History, Language and Linguistics, Literary Studies, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theatre Studies.

You can search the whole collection, browse by subject, or view a full list of titles. The records for individual titles are also being added to StarPlus.

Access here (you will be prompted to log into MUSE).

Temporary access to the Churchill Archive

Anyone interested in Modern British history might be interested to know we have an electronic trial available to the Churchill Archive until 9th January 2013. The archive contains over 800,000 pages from original documents from the Churchill Archive centre in Cambridge.

RILM - enhancements for Music searches

EBSCOhost the provider of RILM Abstracts of Music literature have updated their site to  make subject indexing searchable within four areas: Names Subjects Instrument Families Countries Try it out. If you need help check out the EBSCO Support site

Archives Unbound

Calling all Historians - particularly those interested in Vietnam. I have obtained access to the Gale Cengage Collection: Archives Unbound. We have access to three collections of documents/primary sources

1.America in protest: Records of anti-Vietnam war organisations

2.Intelligence reports from the National Security Council's Vietnam Information Group 1967-1975

3. U.S. Civilian advisory effort in Vietnam...1950-1954

You can access this via MUSE and the Library eResources here

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/au

Hopefully this will help with some dissertations.

Clare

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - Trial until 30 November!

Hello,

All those of you who regularly use foreign language dictionaries - in School of Modern Language and Linguistics - in particular we now have access to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. Please do make use of it and fill out the feedback form.

This is the page that links to the Trial:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialoxfldo.html

Here is the feedback form:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialfeedback.html

Do let us know what you think. Many thanks, Clare

Electronic access to full text Philosophy titles

The University Library now has full text electronic access to the following titles from the Intelex Past Masters collection. You may be prompted to log into MUSE:

• Aristotle: Complete Works


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  British Philosophy: 1600-1900


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  The Continental Rationalists


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  Dewey: Collected Works (1st Release)


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  Hegel: The Oxford University Press Translations


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  Kant: Hauptwerke


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  Kierkegaard: Journals and Papers


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  Nietzsches Werke


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  Peirce: Collected Papers


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  Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill


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  Wittgenstein: Collected Works

The collection can also be accessed from the Library tab in MUSE under subject databases. Use the alphabetical table to locate the link to Past Masters. 

Bibliography of British and Irish History - trial electronic resource

We currently have trial access to the Bibliography of British and Irish History.

The BBIH provides bibliographic data on historical writing relating to British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. It includes the details of books, articles in books and articles in journals. For more details on the range of information included take a look at the 'Introduction' tab.

Both advanced and simple searching options are available. Take a look at the 'how to search' section to help you get started.

Access to this electronic resource is available to registered staff and students of the University of Sheffield until 31 December 2009.